quiquille
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9 characters
Language
Spanish
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quiquille is aSpanishnoun. It means: (Glaucidium nanum) Búho de unos 20 cm, que en Chile vive desde Tarapacá hasta la Tierra del Fuego. Aunque su hábitat natural son los bosques y la cordillera hasta los dos mil metros, no desdeña las... Pronounced [kiˈkiʝe].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | quiquille |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kiˈkiʝe] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The Spanish entry for quiquille is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kiˈkiʝe]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "(Glaucidium nanum) Búho de unos 20 cm, que en Chile vive desde Tarapacá hasta la Tierra del Fuego. Aunque su hábitat natural son los bosques y la cordillera hasta los dos mil metros, no desdeña las...".
No misspelling variants are generated for quiquille in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is quiquille, spelled Q-U-I-Q-U-I-L-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(Glaucidium nanum) Búho de unos 20 cm, que en Chile vive desde Tarapacá hasta la Tierra del Fuego. Aunque su hábitat natural son los bosques y la cordillera hasta los dos mil metros, no desdeña las zonas pobladas en busca de roedores.
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